John C. Reilly and Jordan Vogt-Roberts on the set of Kong: Skull Island. Photo: Vince Valitutti

Jordan Vogt-Roberts had a nice thing going. After cutting his teeth in Chicago directing the likes of Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, and T.J. Miller in short films, Vogt-Roberts’s first feature film, The Kings of Summer, became a Sundance darling in 2013. More